post/2012-12-15-get-vm-ip/

[utterances-bot]

Getting the IP address of a libvirt domain · The Odd Bit

If you are starting virtual machines via libvirt, and you have attached them to the default network, there is a very simple method you can use to determine the address assigned to your running instance: Libvirt runs dnsmasq for the default network, and saves leases in a local file (/var/lib/libvirt/dnsmasq/default.leases under RHEL). You can get the MAC address assigned to a virtual machine by querying the domain XML description. Putting this together gets us something along the lines of:

https://blog.oddbit.com/post/2012-12-15-get-vm-ip/

[sspreitzer]

This example assumes a bridged network configuration and is not applicable to the NAT use case.

[larsks]

This example is also almost 10 years old and I wouldn't necessarily recommend it as a modern solution.